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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 3 — Lands Containing Coal, Oil, Gas, Salts, Asphaltic Materials, Sodium, Sulphur, and Building Stone

§ 76. Reservation of rights upon coal lands; sale of certain mining lands

Statutory text

Nothing in sections 71 to 75 of this title shall be construed to destroy or impair any rights which may have attached prior to the third day of March, 1873, or to authorize the sale of lands valuable for mines of gold, silver, or copper.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. (R.S. § 2352.)

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 76

    (R.S. § 2352.)

    Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (R.S. § 2352.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved

Editorial Notes

Codification

R.S. § 2352 derived from act Mar. 3, 1873, ch. 279, § 6, 17 Stat. 608.

Executive Documents

Indian Lands Excepted

See note set out under section 71 of this title.

Credits

(R.S. § 2352.)

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